Now, I'm not sure if this was already posted but if it was, Mods please let me know... I'm on a work comp and the search engine you are using is
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I live very close to Tinley Park. Like the other side of 159th from my location. The institute they are doing this at is abandoned and no longer in
service as well..... I have some pretty scary stories of when it was in use with escape's but that's neither here nore there.

This is a first for me, as nothing like this has ever come this close to home.

I just wanted to notify ATS as most of the time this is followed by something larger on the horizon.

So I guess I'm mainly looking for thoughts on the matter.

Please advise, because I'd be lying if I said I was ok with this even though it's already done. Don't they have training facilities for these types
of excersises? Like Military bases with mock buildings?

Just a little scary no? And i'm not worried about the local cops using the facility, it's the fact that it's a gov't ran training excersice.

A Department of Defense training exercise that included explosions heard miles away scared some southwest suburban residents late Tuesday and early
this morning.

Residents said they heard “bomb” noises from about 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. Tinley Park police received about 25 calls from residents who were either
fearful or angry, especially in the wake of the bombings in Boston last week.

The urban warfare training at the former Tinley Park Mental Health Center was expected to use small explosives to blow doors off hinges, local
authorities said. A second training exercise at the former mental health center is planned for tonight, this time with helicopters, police said.

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Jack Nugent, 29, heard the first explosion while watching television with his girlfriend from his Frankfort Square home about 3 miles away. He thought
it was a fireworks show at first and the noise caused his two English bulldogs to start barking and running around his living room, he said.

“People usually have the common courtesy not to do this during the week,” Nugent said.

Erin Lonergan, 25, lives about a mile from the training site. She heard the explosions while watching a movie with her family.

“They were happening every 15 minutes or so,” Lonergan told the Tribune. “They were quite loud.”

Lonergan said she was scared because of the time of night and the bombings at the Boston Marathon last week.

“I don’t think this is the time or place to be doing these exercises, especially in the wake of everything that’s gone on in Boston,” Lonergan
said. “No need to scare anyone.”

Others took to Twitter to vent. One high school student questioned why law enforcement can “blow (expletive) up at 11 at night in the middle of the
week during ACTs but it’s illegal for me to have firecrackers on the 4th?”

Local police were not involved with the training, said Emergency Management Agency Director Pat Carr, who apologized that the exercise kept some
people awake. He said the calls they received were minimal compared to the number received during a fireworks display.

“We receive over 100 calls during a Fourth of July night, and that is with no notification. We are happy with the results from last night,” Carr
said in an email.

The village alerted local media to the planned training exercise last week and posted information on its website.

“Unfortunately, emergencies or incidents don’t happen at ideal times which is why the military and first responders train to respond to anyplace
or anytime, rain or shine,” Carr said.

The former mental health center has been used for training for the last two years by a variety of local law enforcement agencies and federal
departments, including state police, Cook County sheriff, Chicago police and the FBI.

What I learned from her reply is that evaluation is made by the number of responses in writng they receive. You didn't say whether you wrote a
complaint or not. Perhaps more of us need to make our voices heard instead of inwardly growling.

Well, I guess that explains the boarded-over doors and windows on the circular building just off Harlem. I pass by there every 2 weeks or so and when
I passed by this morning it was all boarded up with particle board. I was curious about that. Good catch, I never heard anything about this.

Local police were not involved with the training, said Emergency Management Agency Director Pat Carr, who apologized that the exercise kept some
people awake. He said the calls they received were minimal compared to the number received during a fireworks display.

“We receive over 100 calls during a Fourth of July night, and that is with no notification. We are happy with the results from last night,” Carr
said in an email.

I find this a very curious answer along with the neighbor involved in local politics saying that notices were sent out.

I can easily imagine that a local tied into the political scene would know and talk to friends about the exercise, mainly because it is something
pretty interesting to talk about. I'm not so sure about the notifications sent out, though. Whether it was online, if you cared to look it up... LOL,
or if there was a mailing, which I doubt because that takes time and money.

OP, you said you didn't have any idea of any kind of training exercise. I mean if it were my town of like 40,000 some people, we would receive some
kind of BS notice that we should have figured out by ourselves by using established links like FB or signing up for 'official notifications' from
the city or county website. They don't mind ruining my television programming by including an Emergency Broadcast Transmission, which if it were an
actual emergency you would be prompted to panic by the proper authorities.

To me I don't think it would be that big a deal, but still it sucks that so much can go on that actually intrudes on your own personal enjoyment
level, and you are pretty much told to move along, nothing to see here. I guess it could be worse...

Wow. I live around 183 and gov. highway. I had no idea that's what was going on. Im a night owl so I'm usualy up and about in the middle of the
night. I guess this is going to be a regular thing there.

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